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From 1985 to 1994 Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley had been one of many world’s greatest energy {couples}.

She was the world’s most well-known supermodel, and he was the singer-songwriter chargeable for a slew of beloved hits.

However the marriage ended on a bitter word, and now, Christie is opening up for the primary time about what went incorrect.

Christie Brinkley says she and Billy Joel parted methods due to his ingesting

In excerpts from her new memoir revealed by Individuals journal, the style icon says that the break up was a results of Joel’s alcoholism.

“To be clear, I by no means needed to finish issues with Billy. However his ingesting was greater than the each of us,” she stated.

“Ultimately, when the connection isn’t functioning the way in which you need it to be anymore — that’s the worst sort of loneliness since you simply can’t make it work collectively and that’s painful.”

Joel has spoken brazenly about his struggles with substance abuse. In 2023, he informed the Los Angeles Instances that he’d stop ingesting “a few years in the past.”

“It wasn’t a giant AA kick. I simply received to some extent the place I’d had sufficient. I didn’t get pleasure from being utterly inebriated, and it most likely created extra issues in my life than I wanted,” he continued, including:

“I don’t want it now. I used to get offstage and be so wound up and adrenalized that I wanted one thing to relax to fall asleep. However I noticed while you’re ingesting your self to sleep, you’re probably not sleeping. You’re simply passing out.”

Within the years since her break up from Joel, Brinkley has had two extra marriages, one to actual property developer Ricky Taubman, and a second to architect Peter Prepare dinner. Each resulted in divorce.

Elsewhere in her e book, Brinkley gushed about her early days with Joel.

“We laughed such as you couldn’t imagine. But additionally he was so delicate and he did all of the old school issues, the flowers, the notes and the poems and the songs,” she stated.

“He was going into the recording studio and he was writing all these songs and saying ‘This one’s for you.’ How might I not fall in love with him?” Brinkley continued, explaining that she doesn’t see the singer fairly often lately, however they nonetheless get alongside.

”He lives primarily in Florida so we don’t see him as a lot as when he lived in Sag Harbor,” she stated.

“However when he comes by to see [daughter] Alexa, he’ll are available and say whats up.”

Requested about Joel’s response to her memoir, Christie remarked, “Alexa described it to him, and he’s like, ‘Sounds good, no drawback.’”

So it might have taken some time to get there — but it surely appears like Billy and Christie have reached a secure place of their relationship.